Job 38:10
And when I decreed for it my law, and set [for it] bars and doors,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
In Context
9When I made the clouds its garment, and thick fog its swaddling-cloth,
Cross References
Genesis 9:15I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Job 41:14(41:6) Who hath opened the doors of his face? all round about his teeth abideth terror.
Psalms 104:9Bounds hast thou set which they cannot pass over, that they return not again to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Will ye not fear me? saith the Lord; will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand as a bound for the sea by an everlasting law, which it can never pass over? and though the waves thereof be upheaved, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:5-12
The Creation of the World. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the… Read the whole commentary →